Calendar and Assignments - Spring 2008
Week One (January 16 or 17)
Introduction / Optional Orientation:
Date: Wednesday - January 16
Time: 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Place: H224, SCC
or
Date: Thursday - January 17
Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Place: H228, SCC
Orientation to the course interface,
Grading and Plagiarism Policies
Revision Guidelines for Writing about Literature
All World Literature II - English 2333.WW1 syllabus information, course activities and communication, e-mail correspondence, and related Web resources exist on this site.
As a reference, print out this frame and read the basic syllabus or click on the various parts of the syllabus policies (left menu) and calendar (right menu) for specific information about the course and activities. Please read and follow these basic communication principles:
- This course requires Cougar mail for all correspondence. If you have your user name and password, go to http://cougarmail.ccccd.edu, or go to the college Current Students User name page information sheet at http://username.ccccd.edu/username/ for further instructions - you must have a current password and username (the last six numbers of your college-wide ID).
Please remember to periodically clean-up your cougar mail account and delete all non-academic or work from previous semesters.
- As a matter of formality, put your full name in the text of each e-mail submission, either at the beginning or end, and always write the course number, week number and/or author/assignment number, as is appropriate, in the subject box of your e-mail submission - example (in the e-mail subject box): ENGL 2333 - Week 2 - Moliere.
- Please cut and paste your assignments into your Cougar mail submissions. I do not accept Word attachments.
- Submit assignments promptly (each week, Wednesdays, by 12 noon).
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Week Two (due by Wednesday, January 23, 12 noon)
Volume D: 1650 to 1800
The Enlightenment in Europe, 295-300, Timeline, 302-3
JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIÈRE (1622-1673), 304-6
Preface, 306-310; First-Third Petitions, 310-313
Tartuffe, 312-361
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, January 23, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Theatre History listing
Tartuffe (french)
Week Three (due by Wednesday, January 30, 12 noon)
SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ (1648-1695), 403-4
Reply to Sor Filotea de la Cruz, 405-430
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, January 30, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Fama y obras postumas
Poetry
Project
Week Four (due by Wednesday, February 6, 12 noon)
The Rise of Popular Arts in Premodern Japan, 583-5, Timeline, 586-7
MATSUO BASHO (1644-1694), 603-6
The Narrow Road of the Interior, 607-629
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, February 6, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Basho's World
Poems on Tanzaku Paper
Basho Links
Week Five (due by Wednesday, February 13, 12 noon)
Volume E: 1800 to 1900
Revolution and Romanticism in Europe and America, 651-658
JEAN-JAQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778), 662-4
from Confessions, Part I, 664-678
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, February 13, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Rousseau Association
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Eighteenth-century Resources
Week Six (due by Wednesday, February 20, 12 noon)
Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:
William Blake
William Wordsworth
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827), 780-2
selections from Songs of Innocence, 782-5
selections from Songs of Experience, 785-8
"Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau," 788
"And Did Those Feet...," 789
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, February 20, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Archive
Selected Poems
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Eighteenth-century Resources
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1827), 789-792
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," 792-5
"Ode on Intimations of Immortality," 795-780
"Composed on Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802," 800
"The World Is Too Much With Us," 800-1
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, February 20, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Complete Poetical Works
Hypertextual Bibliography
Wordsworth Trust
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Eighteenth-century Resources
Week Seven (due by Wednesday, February 27, 12 noon)
Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:
Dorothy Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855), 801-2
from The Grasmere Journals, 803-811
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, February 27, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Falls of the Clyde
Wordsworth Trust
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822), 819-820
"England in 1819," 821,
"A Defence of Poetry," 823-5
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, February 27, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Complete poetical works
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Eighteenth-century Resources
Week Eight (due by Wednesday, March 5, 12 noon)
Essay One topics (due next week, March 12, 12 noon).
Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:
Frederick Douglass
Walt Whitman
Charles Baudelaire
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1892), 694-6,
selections from
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, An American Slave
Chapter I-XI and Appendix, 923-980
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, March 5, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Biography
Photo
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892), 980-2,
from Song of Myself, 982-991
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, March 5, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Leaves of Grass
Library of Congress Page
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867), 1380-3
The Flowers of Evil, Paris Spleen (selections), 1384-1398
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, March 5, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Les Fleurs du Mal
Week Nine (due by Wednesday, March 12, 12 noon)
Essay One (due by Wednesday, March 12, 12 noon).
Week Ten (due by Wednesday, March 26, 12 noon)
Volume F: The Twentieth Century
The Modern World: Self and Other in Global Context, 1579-1601
Timeline, 1602-3
Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:
Navajo
Rabindranath Tagore
William Butler Yeats
Rubén Darío
THE NIGHT CHANT (Navajo, ca. 1897-1902),
Prayer to Thunder, 1608-1610
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, March 26, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Navajo Prayer and Story
Navajo Past
RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941), 1671-4,
from Janman-dine, "On My Birthday-20," 1691-3
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, March 26, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Tagore Bio
Nobel Site
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1 (1865-1939), 1699-1702
"The Second Coming," 1705
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, March 26, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Wind among the reeds
Responsibilities
Wild Swans at Coole
RUBÉN DARÍO (1867-1916), 1712-1714,
"I Seek a Form...," 1718
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, March 26, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Tribute
Biography
Week Eleven (due by Wednesday, April 2, 12 noon)
Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:
Wallace Stevens
Lu Xun
Inuit
T. S. Eliot
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955), 1570-1573
selected poems, 1574-1582
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, April 2, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Article
Estate of Mind
Homepage
jar
LU XUN (1881-1936), 1917-1920,
from Wild Grass, "Epigraph," 1938-9
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, April 2, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Links
Homepage
INUIT SONGS, 2036-8
ORPINGALIK (fl. 1923), "My Breath," 2038-2040
NETSIT (fl. 1923, "Dead Man's Song," 2041-2
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, April 2, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Canadian Journal
T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965), 1672-1676
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," 1676-1779
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, April 2, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Essays
Prufrock
Tradition and Individual Talent
Wasteland
Week Twelve (due by Wednesday, April 9, 12 noon)
Last Day to Withdraw from Classes: Friday, April 11.
No Late Course Work Accepted after Wednesday, April 9, 12 noon.
Course Evaluation (Click here - please evaluate by Friday, May 2)
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941), 1974-7,
"A Room of One's Own," Chapters 2-3, 1978-1996
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, April 9, 12 noon):
Response Paper
International Society
Yahoo Sites
Week Thirteen (due by Wednesday, April 16, 12 noon)
Course Evaluation (Click here - please evaluate by Friday, May 2)
Essay Two topics (due next week, April 23, 12 noon).
Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:
Anna Akhmatova
Frederic García Lorca
ANNA AKHMATOVA (1889-1966), 2098-2101,
"Requiem," 2102-8
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, April 16, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Academy Site
Jilly's Homepage
FREDRICO GARCÍA LORCA (1898-1936), 2267-2271
"Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" 2271-6
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, November 21, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Poems
Week Fourteen (due by Wednesday, April 23, 12 noon)
Course Evaluation (Click here - please evaluate by Friday, May 2)
Essay Two (due by Wednesday, April 23, 12 noon).
Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:
Week Fifteen (due by Wednesday, April 30, 12 noon)
Course Evaluation (Click here - please evaluate by Friday, May 2)
Final Essay topics (due Monday, May 5, 12 noon).
Choose one Response Paper from the following authors:
Naguib Mahfouz
Albert Camus
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gabriel García Márquez
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ (b. 1911), 2527-2531
"Zaabalawi," 2531-8
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, April 30, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Biography
Nobel Site
ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960), 2570-3
"The Guest," 2574-2582
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, April 30, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Nobel Site
Interpretation
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN (b. 1918), 2692-6
"Matryona's Home," 2696-2722
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, April 30, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Nobel Site
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ (b. 1928), 2845-9
"Death Constant Beyond Love," 2849-2855
Web sites / Response Paper (due by Wednesday, April 30, 12 noon):
Response Paper
Macondo
Nobel Site
Week Sixteen (December 10)
Final Essay (due Monday, May 5, 12 noon).
